'What a surprise, guy who is supposed to enforce checks and balances thinks checks shouldn't apply to him,' AOC said of Samuel Alito.
Democrats on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee last week to advance Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act without any GOP support.Justice Alito says he voluntarily follows disclosure statutes that apply to lower court judges and executive branch officials; so do the other justices. But he notes that"Congress did not create the Supreme Court"—the Constitution did.
Do the other justices agree?"I don't know that any of my colleagues have spoken about it publicly, so I don’t think I should say. But I think it is something we have all thought about."Sherrilyn Ifill former president and director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund."Justice Alito—and I'm certain not only Justice Alito—believes that the Supreme Court is a branch of our [government] that is unchecked and unaccountable, and unreachable by the power of Congress.
Ifill was among many legal experts and lawmakers who took issue with Alito's remarks, with many citing the U.S. Constitution.
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